THE IRISH QUESTION.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 67, 15 November 1887, Page 2

THE IRISH QUESTION.

MOONLIGHTERS THREATEN. RENT-PAYING TENANTS TO BE KILLED REVENGE. London, November 12. The Moonlighters of County Clare threaten to kill all tenants paying rent unless O’Brien is released.

ENGLISH LABOR ADVOCATE ARRESTED THE LEAGUE TO BE CRUSHED. “FOOTBALL” CLUBS IN ITS PLACE. TRICKING O’BRIEN. London, November 14. Mr Doughty, English labour delegate, has been arrested in consequence of hia speech in County Clare. The Government intend to entirely suppress the League forthwith. Mr O’Brien’s clothes were removed while he was in bed for the purpose of forcing him to don the prison garb. Lord Cork’s tenants refuse to pay any rent until Mr O’Brien is released. Football clubs are being formed in Ireland to take the place of the National League.

The following items concerning the Irish Question are from the papers brought by the Frisco mail which arrived in Auckland on Friday last: — Michael Davitt left New York for Ireland on October 14th, The object of his visit.to the United States was to secure the co-oper-ation of the Knights of Labor in the contest for Home Rulo, but he failed to accomplish hie object. The closing meeting of the Liberal Convention at Nottingham on the 19th of October was one of the largijt ever held in England. Nearly 6000 persons were present. The hit of the meeting was when Mr Gladstone, taking a candle in his hand, read a telegram announcing that Dr Kane had repudiated Mr Chamberlain’s Parliament for Ulster. Mr Saunderson, the Parliamentary leader for the same party, had previously repudiated Mr Chamberlain’s land purchase scheme. The second point of enthusiasm came when Mr Gladstone referred to Mr Chamberlain's demand for a plan of dealing with Ulster. Michael Davitt reached Queenstown on October 20th on his return from New York. He was given an enthusiastic welcome, but declined to receive an address from the League. His health has been completely restored. Dr Johnson’s house at Lichfield was sold at auction on October 20th for £BOO.

Mr Eyelyn, Conservative, has resigned his seat'for Deptford, being unwilling to support the Irish policy of the Government, Mr Healey, M.P., was speaking at a meeting at Longford on October 9th when the platform fell, and the Government reporter was injured. Mr Healey chaffed the reporter >vhile he was suffering on his first trial of a plank bad. In his speech Mr Healey said there would soon be no more landlords left in Ireland, and he hoped the mortgages of Lord Gannard would not leave him a brass farthing to bless himself with. At the trial of the men for the raid on farmer Sexton’s house, where Whelan was murdered, Callinan, an informer, testified that he planned to deliver his companions over to the police, and that all hia expenses were paid by the Government. The Fenian fraternity in London, Paris, and New York, have been profoundly moved by these disclosures, and are beginning to believe that the Government can checkmate them at every turn. The prisoners were committed for trial on the Bth of October, and the populace cheered them as they were led back to gaol. The coroner’s inquest into the Miohelstown riots having resulted in a verdict of wilful murder against Inspector Brownrigg, Sergeants Kirwan, Rider, and Brennan, and Constables Gavan and Dorance, the coroner issued warrants for the arrest of the parties. The execution of the warrants was, however, suspended by order of the Inspector-General , of Constabulary. An immense meeting was held in the Rotuhda, Dublin, on November 11, to protest against the prosecutions that are being directed by the Government against the Press. Major Saunderson, M.P., an Orange leader, made a speech in Belfast on October 17, in the course of which he spoke in high praise of the policy of Mr Chamberlain and his followers. He said the Government was not worth its salt unless it set the Parnellites to oakum picking in Kilmainham gaol. Several influential English and Booth newspaper proprietors have offered use of their premises, machinery, and staffs if the Govc.nment should close the National office in Dublin. The Scotland Yard officials profess to have received information to the effect that a number of Americans are cqmtemplating a aeriea of dynamite outrages in Ireland and England. AU the special police precautions that were in use during the troubled? times of 1881 and 1882 have been revived for Mr Balfour's protection, At Tuam fair on October 15th thousands of head of cattle and sheep were offered for sale at ruinous prices, but despite the low figures there were no purchasers. Large graziers declare they cannot continue business any longer and must take advantage of the bankrupt laws. Three tenants on the estate of Lord Clanricarde were evicted on October 20th. Patrick Campbell strenuously resisted the oflioers, and during the melee his daughter Margaret was struck the head with a crowbar. Eight women and two men were arrested. Mr Chamberlain addressed 4000 persons in the Ulster Hall, Belfast, on the 12th of Oct. He said he did not intend to submit Ulster to a Dublin Parliament, because he objected to submitting the Ulster people's orderly and regular life to the inventors of the plan of campaign. A Parliament in Dublin would be simply an American Tammany Hall transferred from New York to Dublin.